A Useless Villain

Series 1 END "Aku mau ngajuin kontrak kedua untuk pernikahan kita, sebelum kita cerai," Ujar Aveline sambil menyodorkan kertas dan pulpen pada Cassian yang duduk di hadapannya. Visi Misi hidup Aveline Seraphina Rinaldi adalah menaklukan hati Cassian Ardentio Wijaya, suaminya. Dia sudah lama menyimpan hati untuk cinta pertamanya itu, dan sekarang mereka menikah karena ada udang dibalik batu aka nikah kontrak. Tentunya, Aveline tidak akan menyia-nyiakan kesempatan yang datang padanya. Jadi... Misi pertama, mengandung anak Cassian.. Series 2 ON GOING

Dunia bawah porak poranda, kerusakan dan kontaminasi tidak terelakkan. Pangeran Yuan terpanggil untuk menyelesaikan masalah ini, mengembalikan dunia bawah menjadi tempat yang layak. Bersama dengan Putri Yui, Pangeran Yuan mencari harta yang bisa mengembalikan tanah tandus menjadi subur, sebuah harpa ajaib. Perseteruan tentang siapa yang seharusnya menjadi raja antara Leiz dan Pangeran Yuan membawa mereka berlomba mendapatkan sebuah harpa ajaib untuk membuktikan siapa yang pantas menjadi raja. Dia yang mendapatkan harpa, dialah yang menjadi raja. (Bagian dari Crystal of Soul:Twins, disarankan membaca Crystal of Soul:Twins sebelum membaca buku ini)

Bagaimana jadinya bila warna aura setiap manusia menjadi kesaktian destruktif yang mampu melenyapkan satu sama lain? Untuk itulah dunia ini tercipta. Dunia di mana warna setiap aura adalah kekuatan yang mampu menghancurkan, mengeksekusi, merestorasi, mendekonstruksi hingga mengendali. Empat manusia telah terpilih. Membangkitkan lagi organisasi tersembunyi. Di dunia yang tak mengindahkan belas kasih. Bertarung, bertempur, dan melenyapkan manusia lainnya menjadi asas dunia ini. Hingga manusia beriris berlian terlahir. Datang demi mengatur setiap sistem politik, norma, pendidikan hingga sumber daya. Dua Pewaris Aura Cahaya bersama rekan-rekannya hadir demi mengontrol dunia. "Bukankah sudah kuperingatkan berulang kali ... perdamaian yang didambakan umat manusia adalah omong kosong? Karenanya, lumrah jika kukendalikan seluruh sistem setiap bangsa. Atau kalau dibutuhkan, kubuat perang tiada berhenti ...."

To save his childhood sweetheart, who had a congenital heart condition, my husband tricked me into signing an organ donation agreement. Then he got into a truck and ran me over right in front of the hospital. Barely clinging to life, Elliot Carter tore my heart from my chest. When my body was wheeled out of the operating room, Alan Yates came crashing to my side like a man gone mad. Seeing the gaping hole where my heart used to be, he screamed and wept: "I'm sorry… I was too late… If there's another life, I'll never let you suffer like this again…" Tears fell exactly where my heart had been, and somehow, I even felt a flicker of warmth. He spun around and ran back into the operating room. When he came out again, Elliot and Jessica Foster were lying in a pool of blood. Alan, meanwhile, had slashed his own wrist to die with me. On his deathbed, he ordered that we be buried together. Then I opened my eyes. I had been reborn. Before me stood Elliot, dressed in a wedding gown, holding a bouquet, and proposing. I flung the flowers in his face and turned to embrace Alan in the crowd. However, only a year and a half into our marriage, he changed. Alan began openly pairing up with Jessica, letting her move into our home. Worse, he claimed that our cat's mating season had disturbed Jessica's sleep, and so he allowed her to run over the cat I had raised for seven years. I could not believe it. This was not the man who had loved me so deeply in my previous life. My eyes blazing, I demanded, "What's wrong with you?" However, Alan's gaze was icy. "Nothing. I just don't love you anymore."

My fiancée and I had been together for ten years. In everyone's eyes, we were the perfect couple. After she saved my life, with tears in my eyes, I made her a promise: "In this lifetime, I'll do 100 things for you." On the eve of our wedding, we decided to climb a snow-covered mountain. An unexpected avalanche struck, and we were stranded at a local farmhouse. Her first love, who was the expedition leader, was injured while trying to save her. In the confusion, he accidentally took an aphrodisiac rather than a painkiller. My fiancée, who had always seemed so traditional and reserved, did not hesitate. She began taking off her clothes, saying she needed to "help" him. Everyone waited for me to explode in rage. Instead, I calmly stepped aside. Three promises remained. Once they were fulfilled, Yvette Jenkins and I would owe each other nothing. However, then it would be time for me to return… and take over my mafia family.

Batari Amara Wijaya seharusnya sudah menjadi abu setelah malam jahanam di Uluwatu. Sepuluh bulan lalu, kehormatannya direnggut paksa oleh pria-pria yang ia sebut keluarga. Di puncak Bukit Terlarang, Batari menukar sisa jiwanya dengan Lenka, entitas mistis haus darah yang memberinya kecantikan mematikan dan aroma mawar yang mampu melumpuhkan logika pria mana pun. Setiap sentuhan Batari adalah racun yang nikmat; setiap desahannya adalah lonceng kematian yang sensual. Kini, Batari kembali ke Jakarta bukan sebagai korban, melainkan sebagai predator. Satu demi satu, mereka yang menghancurkan hidupnya mulai tumbang. Erick Koma, Adrian hilang, Seline hancur, dan kini giliran Victor—pria yang mengklaim tubuh Batari sebagai wilayah kekuasaannya. Victor tidak menginginkan cinta; ia menginginkan kepatuhan mutlak. Ia memburu bibir Batari yang berdarah, menyesap setiap desahan yang keluar dari bibir gadis itu, tak sadar bahwa setiap sentuhannya adalah paku untuk peti matinya sendiri. Di sisi lain, Elio hadir sebagai kontras yang berbahaya—seorang pria berkuasa yang ingin menyelamatkan Batari dari kegelapan yang ia ciptakan sendiri. Di atas ranjang yang menjadi saksi bisu perjamuan nafsu dan air mata, Batari bermain dengan api. Ia membiarkan Victor menjadi anjing penjaganya yang gila, sementara ia perlahan menarik pelatuk untuk pembalasan terakhir. Namun, ada satu aturan darah yang tak boleh dilanggar: Jangan pernah jatuh cinta. Karena saat jantungnya bergetar untuk seorang pria, iblis di dalam nadinya akan menelan jiwanya utuh. Akankah Batari menuntaskan dahaga dendamnya, atau justru terbakar kembali dalam api gairah yang terlarang?

Neil adalah seorang bandar narkoba besar yang memiliki kekayaan tak terbatas jumlahnya. Ia berada di puncak kejayaan, sekaligus di ambang kehancuran. Vonis hidup yang kian menipis dan ancaman dari orang-orang terdekat membuatnya harus berpacu dengan waktu. Mampukah Neil melindungi diri sekaligus membongkar kejahatan besar yang mengintainya dari balik bayang-bayang kekuasaan?

Sejak kepergian sang ayah, Andini harus menikahi Baskara, Tuan Muda yang menabrak ayahnya dalam keadaan mabuk. Hanya saja, Baskara ternyata sudah memiliki tunangan. Pria itu pun menyembunyikan pernikahannya dengan Andini agar masyarakat tak ada yang tahu, termasuk tunangannya Laura dan Mama Baskara. Lantas bagaimana nasib Andini sebagai istri simpanan yang akhirnya hamil anak dari lelaki yang tak dicintainya? Akankah dia mempertahankannya? Atau dia memilih pergi meninggalkan semua bersama lelaki yang merajai hatinya, Prasetia?

My husband, Zane Wade, was drugged at a cocktail party and ended up sleeping with a female college student who looked almost exactly like me. I gave him three chances. The first time, Zane sent the young woman abroad overnight. Then, he knelt outside our home for three days and three nights. The second time, I ran into him and the college student at the hospital. He was accompanying her for a prenatal check-up. At the time, Zane hugged me tightly and refused to let me go. His voice trembled as he said, "I'm sorry, Raina. She's pregnant, and my mother threatened to commit suicide. I have no choice but to keep the child. "I swear, once she gives birth, I'll send her away immediately. The child will go to the old family estate. Please, don't leave me…" But just three days later, because of that same woman, Zane fought me at an auction over my mother's heirlooms. When he saw me raising the bid higher and higher, he immediately went nuclear. This was the third and final chance I gave him. I rushed over to confront him, but Zane wasn't worried. He just frowned slightly and calmly said, "Raina, you know very well that Moira is about to give birth. Why do you insist on fighting a pregnant woman? You only need to endure it for another three months. Then, we can go back to how things were." Upon hearing his words, I almost cried at how ridiculous they sounded. I finally decided to get a divorce, but Zane actually brought Moira Green home openly and without shame.

I had just returned from a business trip. The moment I stepped through the door, I scooped my wife into my arms and rushed her straight to the bathroom for a steamy shower together. We were kissing passionately when, out of the corner of my eye, I noticed something: the toilet seat was flipped up. I froze. Seven years ago, my wife had read a post online claiming that when men pee standing up, bacteria splash onto the seat. She begged me to sit down to pee for the sake of her health. I have kept that promise. For seven years of marriage, that seat has never been up. A knot formed in my stomach, but the bathroom was spotless, so clean it looked staged, not a single stray hair anywhere. Then I noticed the shower temperature. It was set five degrees lower than her usual 43°C. Men like cooler showers. Women like them hotter… At that moment, I knew, Ruby Lynch had cheated on me.